Ok,I have read the front page here on this event,and read about it and the remarks on a couple of other web sites,too.
I can't possibly be the only one that things the woman that came out of Howdy Doody's apartment was a stand in. A stunt double.
Take a close look at the video of that woman. If that was Bubbette!,she has lost about 60 lbs and 20 years since yesterday.
Notice how nobody was allowed to get close to her but the little girl accomplice?